Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance t…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Group
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Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.
The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2007). The Sirens of Titan, p.167, Dial Press
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1998) … ▶
I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing good for know I'm doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home. … ▶
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1981). Palm Sunday: an autobiographical collage

Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Group

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